🔍 Are investors truly making climate-smart decisions? Or are they drowning in ESG data that looks impressive… but means almost nothing?

🎙️ In this episode of the ESG Central Podcast, Sathish reveals how professional investors cut through the noise and focus on the ESG metrics that actually predict financial performance and climate impact.

💡 What You’ll Learn:

• 📈 How investors identify real ESG signals vs. marketing talk
• ⚠️ Top red flags for greenwashing in sustainability reports
• 💰 Why ESG ratings differ — and how investors interpret them
• 🌍 Which climate metrics truly affect valuation (not just PR)
• 🤝 How companies attract ESG capital through credible reporting

We also decode investor tools like materiality maps, portfolio climate alignment, and controversy analysis — all explained most simply and practically.

🎧 This episode is for:

• ESG Analysts 🧑‍💻
• Sustainability Leaders 🌱
• Investors & Finance Teams 💼
• Students entering climate finance 📚
• Anyone curious how money influences sustainability 💡

🔥 Key Takeaway:
ESG is not about how good you look 🌟 — it's about how well you manage risk 🚨 and seize future opportunities 🚀

📌 Follow ESG Central for weekly episodes packed with real-world examples, useful frameworks, and actionable climate insights.

Let’s build a world where capital accelerates climate progress — not just climate promises. 🌍✨

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In this episode of the ESG Central Podcast, Sathish explains the growing risks of greenwashing and greenhushing — two behaviors that are affecting sustainability reporting, ESG regulation, and climate credibility worldwide.

Discover how companies are overstating their climate progress, why some are quietly achieving sustainability targets, and how investors, regulators, and stakeholders are responding.

This episode features practical examples and global regulatory updates, including the EU Green Claims Directive, ISSB S1/S2, and SEC climate rules.

Follow for more actionable ESG insights on carbon reporting, net-zero strategy, sustainability compliance, and responsible business leadership.

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🎙️ Episode: Real Net Zero Roadmap — How Companies Turn Targets Into Action

Lofty Net Zero targets are easy to announce. Delivering them is hard. In this focused episode, Sathish lays out a practical, five-pillar roadmap companies must follow to transform ambition into measurable climate action.

🔥 What you’ll get from this episode

• Why a baseline (Scope 1, 2 & 3) is non-negotiable
• How to set science-based targets that withstand scrutiny
• Concrete reduction levers companies must deploy today
• How to budget the transition — capex, opex & internal carbon pricing
• Clear monitoring, reporting & governance steps to maintain credibility

📌 Who should listen

• ESG & Sustainability Leads
• Investors and Corporate Strategists
• Supply-chain and Operations Managers
• Students & professionals building climate competence

💡 Key takeaways

• A 5-step checklist to evaluate any Net Zero roadmap
• Common pitfall signals — when a roadmap is actually marketing
• A practical example timeline you can reuse for analysis

🌱 Follow ESG Central for more episodes on Net Zero, sustainability reporting, ESG strategy, and corporate climate action.

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